Pound Pounds the CFL

WADA chief Dick Pound jumps all over the CFP for it's drug testing policies.  Story found here in CTV's site.

World Anti-Doping Agency head Dick Pound was interviewed Tuesday on CTV's Canada AM in Toronto, where he discussed his new book, "Inside Dope: How Drugs Are the Biggest Threat to Sports, Why You Should Care, and What Can Be Done About Them."

Among Pound's many targets is the Canadian Football League, which Pound blasted earlier this month for its continuing failure to test its athletes for drug use.

"Here you've got a league that, for God knows how many years, has sort of put its head in the sand and said, 'We do not have a problem in football,'" said Pound.

"And then of course you act as a refuge for players that get offside in the United States, come up here and play during their suspension time."

While he did not mention a player by name, Pound was likely referring to Toronto Argonaut running back Ricky Williams, who was suspended in the U.S. by the National Football League's Miami Dolphins for using drugs.

Hey, that's mean.  Ricky just be Ricky.  Pound continues:

 

"It's bad. Part of the problem is you don't have the right statistics because they don't test. A lot of the sports, they never test and it's only by pushing and prodding that you get them to say, 'yes, there is a problem in the sport."

And it's not just a problem beginning and ending with elite athletes, such as the supermen of the Tour de France and the muscled millionaires of baseball who blast dozens of home runs season upon season. It starts much earlier than that, said Pound.

"It's a pyramid that's created by people saying, 'gee, if that's what these guys do to make it to the big leagues, that's what I've got to do," said Pound. "And it goes all the way down to high school."

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